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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs February 25, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Re: [dxld] RFI and RTV Algerienne (Wolfgang Bueschel)
3. Re: [dxld] RFI and RTV Algerienne (Wolfgang Bueschel)
4. RTM Klasik Nasional FM/R.Sat on 5965 (Jorge Freitas)
5. Re: [dxld] BBC World Service shortwave radio blocked in China
(Wolfgang Bueschel)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:36:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 25, 2013
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<[email protected]>
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** CANADA. 1610, Feb 25 at 0702 UT, some Spanish is making it thru the IBOC
noise from 1600 KATZ MO, so it`s reduced by monitoring in LSB (yes, LSB since
the IBOC peaks at +13 from the main channel). The IBOC noise fades in a regular
pattern as if it is subject to subaudible heterodyning, but maybe it`s really
the 1610 carrier which is fading up and down. Apparently a drama, and presumed
CHHA Toronto, Voces Latinas. The SAH could be from much weaker CJWI Montreal,
further on in the same direxion. This log on the FRG-7 with fixed E-W longwire
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GABON [non]. 9579+, Feb 25 at 0620, once again, I am only hearing MOROCCO,
talk in Arabic, and no het, no carrier from Africa Number One on 9580 --- could
it be gone for good? Is anyone else hearing it anywhen? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 960, Feb 25 at 0600-0605 UT, local KGWA Enid continues to
provide a Fox-hole of dead air most nights --- well, almost, except for that
nasty hum. Carefully nulling it on the DX-398 by the window, from long
experience I recognize three stations coming thru: at 0602, 4-descending `XEW`
chimes really from XEK Nuevo Laredo; then at 0603 harmonica blues music
presumably from WABG Greenwood MS.
And also ABC News from KMA Shenandoah IA --- the latter playing a clip of
Oklahoma`s reaxionary governess Mary Fallin (at least: she`s anti-smoking),
which is very strange, since I remember hearing a clip from her exactly 24
hours earlier altho did not bother to log it then. Could ABC have been playing
back a day-old newscast? Or does Fallin get a regular spot on the midnight
report? (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9955, Feb 25 at 0623, WRMI with some pulse jamming is
relaying ABC TV news! Terry Moran with his emotional reporting from inside
Syria, sounds like something previously on `Nightline`. I think I know which
side this journalist is on, but it is pretty hard to be objective when bloody
opthalmologist-dictator Assad is concerned. Would you trust your eyesight to
that creature? Then found same a few words behind on 3185 WWRB, so it`s really
Brother Scare who is playing this clip to serve his own wacky purposes (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 15270, Feb 25 at 1542, S Asian vocal music, good with flutter;
1545 into talk. HFCC and Aoki agree it`s AWR via Trincomalee, 250 kW, 355
degrees in Hindi at 1530-1600, preceded by Punjabi at 1500. This azimuth
carries onward to N America transpolar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 910, Feb 25 at 1316 UT, level-headed report about gay marriage which
does not condemn the idea! On AM radio! O, it`s `Morning Edition`, as at 1318
ID for IPR, Iowa Public Radio, i.e. WSUI Iowa City, where NPR has this strange
concept of objectivity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 990, Feb 25 at 1306 UT, CBS World News Roundup with report from Larry
Miller in London; 1308 ID as AM 990, a bit of music and then Memphis TN
traffic, 1310 weather from WREG-TV, expecting to escape the snowstorm further
west in OK et al. AM-990 is really KWAM, 10 kW day power. CBS WNR did not
formally close and I had the feeling AM-990 cut away from it; network newscasts
are far too cooperative in allowing affiliates to do that. Enough, already of
news from the world beyond US (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15180, Feb 25 at 1541, big open carrier. Nothing scheduled here
now, anytime between 1457 and 2200. I would have guessed a characteristic VOA
GB tuneup far in advance of scheduled transmission, except there aren`t any on
15180: still could be that, as some frequencies are for test-only, to avoid
QRMing other stations on the ultimate channel. WHRI is listed here daily at
22-23 by the big four references, but I only hear it on Fridays (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
------------------------------
Message: 2
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:15:44 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "DXLD" <[email protected]>, "'BCLNEWS'"
<[email protected]>, "'Georgi Bancov'"
<[email protected]>, "'Glenn Hauser'" <[email protected]>,
"'Hard-Core-DX'" <[email protected]>, "'Noel Green'"
<[email protected]>, "'Sei-ichi Hasegawa'" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] RFI and RTV Algerienne
Message-ID: <2E24F78C90D94BB1BD52931F1A0BEB0C@HNPC2>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8";
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Broad and small band radiation of Issoudun unit:
# Only two minutes to check gauge.
1755 to 1757 UT, then OFF TX sharp.
Main peak exact precise centered 17800.081 kHz today Febr 25.
Very broadband signal 13 kHz each side = 26 kHz in total.
1st peak on 17847.0 to 17873.0 kHz.
? 8 kHz wide signal
center is 11996.424 kHz at 1808 UT,
1st peak at 11991.700 kHz,
last peak at 11999.800 kHz, ditters top to 12001.400 kHz.
& when tuned in 1930 to 1936 totally OFF air.
then observed a very narrow signal of 3 kHz only,
both flanks only 1500 Hertz.
Start lower flank on 11999.471 kHz,
upper flank end at 12000.971 kHz.
I guess this Issoudun TX unit has a similar TX HF quarz amplifier problem,
like the unit at Montsinery GUF now last since at least two months and
reported again and again by Glenn Hauser.
But GUF will be ceased totally on March 31 and scrapped then ?
73 wb
advancing age of the tx HF control equipment in ISS and GUF :
from dxld archive, 13-07 of Febr 13:
Thanks to Jeff White at HFCC Tunis, I have been in contact with the
person at TDF responsible for the MSY transmitters: (gh)
Gentlemen, Thank you for your information and comments regarding some
unwanted radiations of a MSY Tx !
After the measurements we did in Issoudun - France mainland - our
technical staff in Montsinery has been required to check the Tx and a
default would have been identified in a "low power HF amplifier".
Unfortunately we will have to wait some weeks to get a spare HF
amplifier because, for the time being, there is no such spare
amplifier in MSY. Sorry for the delay!
Best regards
(Daniel Bochent - for TDF, Feb 8, WORLD OF RADIO 1656, DXLD)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivo Ivanov" <[email protected]>
To: "'Wolfgang Bueschel'" >
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 1:53 PM
Subject: [dxld] RFI and RTV Algerienne
> FRANCE/ALGERIA Frequency change of Radio and TV Algerienne from
> Feb.24:
> 0600-0605 NF 7295 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf French nx bulletin, ex
> 5865
> 0605-0658 NF 7295 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Qura'n, ex
> 5865
> New frequency 7295 is not registered in HFCC database effective from
> Feb.24
>
> FRANCE Again strange frequencies of Radio France Internationale in
> French
> 1700-1758 # 17853.35 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg to CeAf // 17860 from same tx!!!
> 1800-1858 ? 11996.45*ISS 500 kW / 204 deg to NWAf // 13740 new from Feb.24
> 1900-1958 & 12001.00*ISS 500 kW / 185 deg to WCAf // 13740 new from Feb.24
> * but no signal on fundamental 11995 which was changed to 13740 from
> Feb.24
> No problem on other freqs of RFI 04-09, 12-13, 20-22, checking on
> Feb.24-25
>
> FRANCE(non) Unchanged frequency of Radio France Internationale in
> Swahili
> 0530-0558 on 11790 MEY 100 kW / 007 deg to EaAf not 15160 on Feb.24 //
> 9835
>
> 73! > Ivo
> *QTH*: Sofia, Bulgaria
------------------------------
Message: 3
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:30:14 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "'Sei-ichi Hasegawa'" <[email protected]>, "'Noel Green'"
<[email protected]>, "'Hard-Core-DX'"
<[email protected]>, "'Glenn Hauser'"
<[email protected]>, "'Georgi Bancov'" <[email protected]>,
"'BCLNEWS'" <[email protected]>, "DXLD" <[email protected]>,
"Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] RFI and RTV Algerienne
Message-ID: <A75C36C5F3424255AB311F47A635F7BA@HNPC2>
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reply-type=response
sorry, oooohh keyboard glitch.
Main peak exact precise centered 17860.081 kHz
and
& = 12001.000 kHz.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "DXLD" <[email protected]>; "'BCLNEWS'" <[email protected]>;
"'Georgi Bancov'" <[email protected]>; "'Glenn Hauser'"
<[email protected]>; "'Hard-Core-DX'" <[email protected]>;
"'Noel Green'" <[email protected]>; "'Sei-ichi Hasegawa'"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: [dxld] RFI and RTV Algerienne
>
> Broad and small band radiation of Issoudun unit:
>
>
> # Only two minutes to check gauge.
> 1755 to 1757 UT, then OFF TX sharp.
> Main peak exact precise centered 17800.081 kHz today Febr 25.
> Very broadband signal 13 kHz each side = 26 kHz in total.
> 1st peak on 17847.0 to 17873.0 kHz.
>
>
> ? 8 kHz wide signal
> center is 11996.424 kHz at 1808 UT,
> 1st peak at 11991.700 kHz,
> last peak at 11999.800 kHz, ditters top to 12001.400 kHz.
>
>
> & when tuned in 1930 to 1936 totally OFF air.
> then observed a very narrow signal of 3 kHz only,
> both flanks only 1500 Hertz.
> Start lower flank on 11999.471 kHz,
> upper flank end at 12000.971 kHz.
>
>
> I guess this Issoudun TX unit has a similar TX HF quarz amplifier problem,
> like the unit at Montsinery GUF now last since at least two months and
> reported again and again by Glenn Hauser.
>
> But GUF will be ceased totally on March 31 and scrapped then ?
>
> 73 wb
>
>
>
>
> advancing age of the tx HF control equipment in ISS and GUF :
>
> from dxld archive, 13-07 of Febr 13:
> Thanks to Jeff White at HFCC Tunis, I have been in contact with the
> person at TDF responsible for the MSY transmitters: (gh)
>
> Gentlemen, Thank you for your information and comments regarding some
> unwanted radiations of a MSY Tx !
>
> After the measurements we did in Issoudun - France mainland - our
> technical staff in Montsinery has been required to check the Tx and a
> default would have been identified in a "low power HF amplifier".
>
> Unfortunately we will have to wait some weeks to get a spare HF
> amplifier because, for the time being, there is no such spare
> amplifier in MSY. Sorry for the delay!
>
> Best regards
> (Daniel Bochent - for TDF, Feb 8, WORLD OF RADIO 1656, DXLD)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ivo Ivanov" <[email protected]>
> To: "'Wolfgang Bueschel'" >
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 1:53 PM
> Subject: [dxld] RFI and RTV Algerienne
>
>
>> FRANCE/ALGERIA Frequency change of Radio and TV Algerienne from
>> Feb.24:
>> 0600-0605 NF 7295 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf French nx bulletin, ex
>> 5865
>> 0605-0658 NF 7295 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Qura'n, ex
>> 5865
>> New frequency 7295 is not registered in HFCC database effective from
>> Feb.24
>>
>> FRANCE Again strange frequencies of Radio France Internationale in
>> French
>> 1700-1758 # 17853.35 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg to CeAf // 17860 from same
>> tx!!!
>> 1800-1858 ? 11996.45*ISS 500 kW / 204 deg to NWAf // 13740 new from
>> Feb.24
>> 1900-1958 & 12001.00*ISS 500 kW / 185 deg to WCAf // 13740 new from
>> Feb.24
>> * but no signal on fundamental 11995 which was changed to 13740 from
>> Feb.24
>> No problem on other freqs of RFI 04-09, 12-13, 20-22, checking on
>> Feb.24-25
>>
>> FRANCE(non) Unchanged frequency of Radio France Internationale in
>> Swahili
>> 0530-0558 on 11790 MEY 100 kW / 007 deg to EaAf not 15160 on Feb.24 //
>> 9835
>>
>> 73! > Ivo
>
>> *QTH*: Sofia, Bulgaria
>
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:47:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Jorge Freitas <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Hard Core DX
<[email protected]>, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] RTM Klasik Nasional FM/R.Sat on 5965
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
5965 25/Feb 2359-0032 MALAYSIA, ?RTM Klasik Nasional FM/R.Satu (Presumed) in
Vernacular. Local music until 0007. Very weak signal, but clear music. Strong
QRM from R Itatiaia on 5970. At 0032 Yl talk. Confirmation of listening via SDR
from Twente. The signal is degrading. (Jorge Freitas-B)
73
?
Jorge Freitas
Local time -3 UT
Feira de Santana Bahia?
12?14?S 38?58?W - Brasil
Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of filter Narrow the 6 kHz.
Dipole antenna, 16 meters - east/west
Escutas (listening, my blog): http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006
The best of Brazilian music: http://www.novabrasilfm.com.br/
A bit of my city: www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1443186
------------------------------
Message: 5
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:41:51 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] BBC World Service shortwave radio blocked
in China
Message-ID: <C8D9F740D9EB482C8C079A036275293E@HNPC2>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8";
reply-type=original
New sound from China noted at 0045-0115 UT on remote Unit in NagoyaJPN.
YES,
rushing scratching machine type jamming sound, like hash mess up.
Mostly 10 kHz broadband jamming.
11750 no noise, but requested ITU CNR registration co-ch heard with CNR
progr
12095 NAK noise jammer
13720 - 13730 kHz NAK, the strongest noise in JPN
15310 NAK noise
15335 SNG underneath noise
15410 Unknown, parked noise jammer
15550 TIN only til 24 UT, but still noise at 0110 UT
15610 RFA Tibetan, Firedrake music, 20 kHz wide !
15755 NAK noise
17685 SNG noise, and next door 17675 NZL DRM same broadband digital.
17730 MNG, CNR talk + addit Firedrake music jamming program
17805 IBB Uighur, talk jamming and another CNR talk/music program
73 wb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: [dxld] BBC World Service shortwave radio blocked in China
> Maybe the jammer against Vietnamese and Uzbek services worked overtime,
>
> I heard also the 9490 kHz jamming on other times of the day when checked
> Global Tuners and units in Japan...
>
> see Aoki entries, marked with *
>
> 9490 * VOICE OF AMERICA 1400-1500 1234567 Chinese 250 349 Tinang PHL
> IBB/VOA
> b12
>
> 15310 R.FREE ASIA 1400-1500 1234567 Vietnamese 250 267 Tinian Island
> MRA IBB/RFA2 b12 Dec5-
>
> 17790 * BBC 1300-1330 1234567 Uzbek 300 57 Limassol CYP BBC b12
>
> Maybe jammed also before 140 UT ?
>
> 15575 KBS WORLD RADIO 1400-1500 1234567 Korean 250 81 Kimjae KOR
> KBS b12
>
> I'll check BBCWS via GlobalTuners and Perseus net in coming days, if their
> is started a jamming organisation against BBWS English too. But will avoid
> to report all these digital hash, PLC, main power bursts, OTHR and other
> man
> made noise signals.
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/21574683
> refers only to real BBC Mandarin and Uighur jamming, but never at En WS.
>
> What's on March 31, when Cyprus relay site is scrapped in total then ????
>
> The BBC managment seeks an alibi for self-mutilation of Skelton, Rampisham
> and Zyggi Cyprus shortwave sites ?
>
> 73 wb
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "BDXC" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 9:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [dxld] BBC World Service shortwave radio blocked in China
>
> I?ve noticed the interference in the mornings here in the UK over the past
> few days, it is quite apparent during the 1000-1200 period on several
> BBCWS
> English frequencies such as 15285, 15310, 15575, 17760, 17790 etc.
> I?m sure its there at other times too. It seems to have been going on for
> some time, but because the jamming is a type of white noise or digital
> noise, its sometimes difficult to distinguish it from the general
> background
> interference.
> 73s Dave
>
> From: Glenn Hauser
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 6:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [dxld] BBC World Service shortwave radio blocked in China
>
> WTFK??? BBC isn`t saying so we can check it for ourselves. However
> here is more about it. The clip includes some tones and the noise does not
> sound like DRM. As for being ``not possible`` to locate, of course it is!
> With professional direxion-finding equipment and techniques. Glenn
>
> Reports on Keith Perron's "PCJ Media and PCJ Radio" Facebook group over
> the
> past week have complained of possible jamming on BBC English frequencies
> especially on 15310 via Oman and 17790 via Thailand. A digital signal is
> being applied overtop that is obliterating reception. Partha Sarathi
> Goswami
> posted a recording of it on
>
> Soundcloud: https:\\soundcloud.com/dxinginfo/bbc-17790-interference
>
> In an e-mail exchange with Steve Handler, we were informed that the
> Chinese
> have never jammed English broadcasts before and such digital jamming was
> not
> their known practice.
>
> However, the BBC have now come out and are blaming the Chinese in two
> separate linked stories posted by Dave Kenny:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/statements/shortwave-jamming.html and
>
> Andy Sennit[t]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/21574683
> (Mark Coady, dxiingwithcumbre yg via DXLD)
>
> On Mon, 2/25/13, Wolfgang Bueschel <> wrote:
> From: Wolfgang Bueschel <>
> Subject: Re: [dxld] BBC World Service shortwave radio blocked in China
> To: "DXLD" <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, February 25, 2013, 11:51 AM
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-21575913
> this website post is not very profound and rather poor content.
>
> Remaining BBC broadcasts these days on shortwave are jammed only by China
> Mainland security jammers in Uighur language for 12 million nationals in
> western China near Kashgar ?
>
> But have never heard of BBCWS English jamming ...
>
> But Iranian government jamms BBC outlets in Farsi and similar Dari
> languages
> with 1000 Hertz tone heterodyne and bubble jamming 2 kHz away frequency.
>
> 73 wb
>
> Original Message
> From: Gilles Letourneau [email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 6:09 PM
> Subject: [dxld] bbc jamming
>
> Hello everyone,
> Was listening to the BBC on 21660 khz with news at 1700 UT ... they had an
> interesting news item about the BBC beeing jammed extensively in China on
> their shortwave frequencies.
>
> When you think about ... all chinese transmitters used for jamming
> ... incredible...
>
> It reminds me of the russian jamming of the 80 's .. was everywhere
> on the band
> 73 Gilles Letourneau Montreal, Canada
>
> Original Message
> From: Alokesh Gupta [email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 6:09 PM
> Subject: [dxld] BBC World Service shortwave radio blocked in China
>
> The BBC has said shortwave broadcasts in English of World Service radio
> are
> being jammed in China. In a statement, the corporation said it was not
> possible to determine exactly where the blocking was coming from. But it
> said the "extensive and co-ordinated efforts are indicative of a
> well-resourced country such as China". "The BBC strongly condemns this
> action which is designed to disrupt audiences' free access to news and
> information," said the statement.
> More at :
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-21575913
>
> Alokesh Gupta
> New Delhi
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